The Use-life of the Middle Kingdom Tomb of Governor Nehri I at Dayr al-Barsha: Reconstructing Find Contexts Based on the Distribution of Coffin Fragments

The Hatnub graffiti dating to governor Nehri I stand at the core of a long standing debate regarding the chronology of the Middle Kingdom nomarchs of the fifteenth Upper Egyptian nome. The tomb inventiry of Nehri I, who was burief at Dayr al-Barsha, has, however, never been enetered into this debate. In this article a first step is taken in that direction by considering various, previsouly unpublished coffin fragments that were excavated by George Andrew Reisner in 1915 and are now preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The excavation history of Nehri's tomb is also clarified, which has implications for the interpretation of the distribution of the coffin fragments in different shafts of the tomb. The use-life of the tomb of Nehri I is reconstrcuted based on the combination of the tomb inventory and the different building phases of the tomb.status: publishe